Pieter Abbeel teaches the PR2 robot from Willow Garage a few new tricks. It can identify towels in a pile of laundry, pick them up and fold them rather quickly. It’s pretty amazing. Whenever it’ll be able to perform low-cost dentistry I’ll save some money and put my name on the waiting list. Photographed for technology review for their annual list of 35 innovators under 35 at UC Berkeley.

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